Larry Kersten
Larry Kersten
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Pessimism - Every dark cloud has a silver lining, but lightning kills hundreds of people each year who are trying to find it.
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Overconfidence - Before you attempt to beat the odds, be sure you could survive the odds beating you.
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Loneliness - If you find yourself struggling with loneliness, you're not alone. And yet you are alone. So very alone.
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Humiliation - The harder you try, the dumber you look.
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Blame - The secret to success is knowing who to blame for your failures.
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Failure - When your best just isn't good enough.
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Bitterness - Never be afraid to share your dreams with the world, because there's nothing the world loves more than the taste of really sweet dreams.
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Retirement - Because you've given so much of yourself to the company that you don't have anything left we can use.
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Mediocrity - It takes a lot less time and most people won't notice the difference until it's too late.
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Nepotism - We promote family values here almost as often as we promote family members.
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Power - Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. But it rocks absolutely, too.
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Pretension - The downside of being better than everyone else is that people tend to assume you're pretentious.
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Procrastination: Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now
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Discovery - A company that will go to the ends of the earth for its people will discover it can hire them for about 10% of the cost of Americans.